Mission
It is Hale County Hospital’s mission to pursue and promote healing, improved health, and improved quality of life of the residents of Hale County and surrounding communities.
Our focus is on relationship and community-centered healthcare complemented by programming, activities, and community partnerships that support improved health and quality of life of our neighbors.
In addition, we seek to prepare medical, health professions, and other students to carry forward the humanistic and community focused standard to which we aspire in our own work. We further seek to prepare community health leaders for our region, state, and nation, with a special focus on preparing leaders for rural and under-served communities.
What we do
caring for patients
Whether you or your family needs care from our award winning outpatient clinics (with locations in Greensboro and Moundville), our inpatient and outpatient physical therapy and rehab teams, our 5 star rated home health team, our emergency room, laboratory, and radiology departments, or in our beautifully remodeled hospital East Wing that provides inpatient care, 21 day rehab, and hospice care, Hale County Hospital is your hometown center for healthcare excellence in West Alabama.
We know that patients are tired of driving long distances for impersonal care by doctors and providers who don’t know or understand them and don’t take the time to listen. We know that patients are tired of having different doctors for each problem, but no one who is able to put together the whole picture in a way that makes sense for them. And we know that patients and families often need support outside of the clinic setting including transportation, home visits, help with diet and exercise, help with medicines, support for caretakers, and available classes and activities that promote health.
At Hale County Hospital, we are striving to change the way healthcare is delivered to meet the real needs of our patients. We focus on relationship-based and high-touch care that allows us to get to know our patients in ways that less personal systems are unable to achieve. We place a great emphasis on primary care, mental health and behavioral health, and social services, and are working to bring the best of specialty care via video and telephone consultation to your visits with your primary care providers. Finally, we partner with local community and non-profit organizations to offer activities, classes, and support to seniors, individuals with mental illness and to individuals with multiple chronic illnesses who often have needs that extend beyond traditional healthcare systems. This is what we mean when we say “Neighbors Helping Neighbors.”
Supporting our community
As a community health center with deep local roots, we believe strongly in investing in and developing partnerships with our local community. We partner with with local non-profit organizations like Project Horseshoe Farm to offer exercise, fitness, nutrition, recreation, socialization, and other support programs to our community. We pursue community outreach and education through health fairs, the involvement of our employees in many local religious, civic, and other groups in our community, and a popular weekly column in the Greensboro Watchman newspaper. We work with local schools to provide in class academic and mentorship support to elementary school children and are developing a program for our local high school students to help prepare them for in demand careers in healthcare. Finally, we are in the planning stages of future community-based programs that will build upon this work to create more spaces where people can become healthier together.
Preparing Tomorrow’s Healthcare Leaders
Whether educating medical students, allied health students, residents, fellows, or others, Hale County Hospital is committed to helping shape tomorrow’s healthcare systems and the future of rural health through our medical, allied health, and community health leadership education and training programs. We have developed relationships with the University of Alabama and the University of Alabama Birmingham to provide real world community health and rural healthcare training opportunities for their medical and allied health students. Stretching beyond Alabama, our community health leadership training programs and partnerships have attracted students from across the country who want to learn more about our innovative approach to rural and community health.